English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 17

“Walker!” says Jack; “wouldn't you like it?”

Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: say, not like · To what, where: Walker · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Walker	punct
2	Walker	walker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Walker	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 like	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like in a quote	would	you	Walker					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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